Sons and Lovers

Novel (1913) by D H Lawrence. The central character is Paul Morel, the artistic son of a stormy marriage between a coal miner and his sensitive and ambitious wife. He grows up attempting to maintain a strong connection with his mother while failing in his sexual relationships, firstly with the virginal Miriam Leivers and then with the married feminist Clara Dawes. The largely autobiographical material is illuminated and shaped by Lawrence's confidently original imagination.